Short CV

24. Mai 2011
Curriculum vitae: Barbara Hammer
Personal Details:
Barbara Hammer,
female, born 31.7.1970 in Mannheim, Germany;
married, two children, nationality: German
Professional Address:
Prof. Dr. B. Hammer, CITEC centre of excellence,
Bielefeld University, D-33594 Bielefeld, Germany
phone: +49 521 106 12115, fax: +49 521 106 12181
e-mail: [email protected],
http://www.cit-ec.de/tcs/
Academic education:
10.89 – 03.95: Diploma studies at the Department of Mathematics/Computer Science, Universität Osnabrück,
Germany. Thesis in pure mathematics, titled ‘Die Beilinsonspektralsequenz und Anwendungen’ (The Beilinson spectral sequence and applications), Diploma examination in March 1995,
‘with distinction’.
04.95 – 06.99: Pd.D. studies at the Department of Mathematics/Computer Science, Universität Osnabrück.
Thesis in computer science on ‘Learning with recurrent neural networks’, Ph.D. examination
on June 6, 1999, with distinction‘, supervisor: Prof. Dr. V. Sperschneider, external referee:
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Prof. Dr. M. Vidyasagar.
12.2003:
Venia legendi in computer science (‘Habilitation’), thesis titled ‘Mathematical aspects of
Neural Networks’, external referees: Prof. Dr. T. Martinetz, Prof. Dr. A. Sperduti
Scientific employment:
04.91–03.95:
04.95–03.00:
4.00–09.04:
04.02–09.02
10.04–04.10
since 04.10
Part-time employment as a student assistant at the Department of Mathematics/Computer
Science, Universität Osnabrück.
Full-time employment as a research assistant at the Department of Mathematics/Computer
Science, Universität Osnabrück.
Full-time employment as researcher at the Department of Mathematics/Computer Science,
Universität Osnabrück; leader of the young research group Learning with neural methods
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on structured data‘ funded by the Ministry of Science and Culture, Lower Saxony.
I temporarily hold the chair for ‘Neuroinformatik’ at the Department of Mathematics/Computer
Science, Universität Osnabrück.
Associate professor for ‘Theoretische Grundlagen der Informatik’ (Theoretical Computer
Science) at the Computer Science Institute of Clausthal University of Technology.
Associate professor for ‘Theoretische Informatik für Kognitive Systeme’(Theoretical Computer Science for Cognitive Systems) at the University of Bielefeld.
Awards:
For my work as student assistant and my Master studies I recieved the award ‘Studienpreis 1994 der Gemeinschaft der Förderpreisstifter der Universität Osnabrück’. For my Ph.D. thesis I received the award ‘Promotionspreis 1999 der Universitätsgesellschaft Osnabrück’. Further, I received a best paper award at ICANN’02, a best
presentation award at ISNC’98, and a best paper award at KI’07.
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Stays abroad:
09.99:
02.00-03.00:
Visit to Prof. E. Sontag, Prof. B. DasGupta at Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Camden,
U.S.A.
Visit to the group of Prof. M. Vidyasagar at the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics,
Bangalore, India.
11.01-12.01:
Visit to Prof. A. Sperduti at the Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
02.03:
Visit to Prof. A. Sperduti at the Università di Padova, Padova, Italy.
09.03:
Visit to Dr. P. Tiňo at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K.
03.05:
Visit to Prof. M. Cottrell at the Université Paris I, Paris, France, as guest professor
03.07:
Visit to Prof. M.Verleysen at the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
09.08:
Visit to Dr. M. Biehl at the University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, in the frame
of an Erasmus cooperation
05.11:
Visit to Prof. J. Błażewicz at the Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland
Scientific activities and memberships:
• I am a reviewer for various international scientific journals and conferences including Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence; Applied Artificial Intelligence; Applied Intelligence; ECAI; ESANN;
Neural Computation; Neural Processing Letters; Neurocomputing; Neural Networks; Neural Networks
World; ICANN; ICML; IJCNN; NIPS; Systems, Man and Cybernetics; TALANTA.
• I participated as program committee member in several scientific workshops and conferences (including
ESANN, ICANN, IJCNN, ANNPR, ASC, ANNS, ESANN, WSOM, KI, NeSy).
• Jointly with colleagues, I organized special sessions and workshops at several conferences including
ESANN, KI, NIPS.
• Jointly with colleagues, I organized special issues for the journals Neurocomputing, Neural Networks,
Journal of Algorithms in Cognition, Informatics, and Logic.
• I co-organized several Dagstuhl seminars and one seminar at MPI PKS, Dresden.
• I have been invited by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation to co-organize a session on Computer
Science at two Japanese German Frontiers of Science conferences.
• I acted as expert evaluator for several scientific organizations including NWO, DFG, FWF, NRF, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
• I have been invited to participate in several national and international Ph.D. committees.
• I am/have been a member of the editorial board of Neurocomputing, Neural Processing Letters, and IEEE
TNN.
• I am a member of the German ‘Gesellschaft für Informatik’ the ‘European Neural Networks Society’, and
IEEE CIS. I am leading the IEEE CIS Data Mining Technical Committee task force on Data visualization
and data analysis. I am leading the GI-Arbeitskreis on Neural Networks.
• I am co-author/co-editor of four books, more than 50 journal articles, and more than 120 contributions to
international conferences.
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Research interests:
• Learning with neural methods for structured data, neuro-symbolic integration,
• Theory of neural systems, statistical learning theory, theory of on-line learning,
• Recurrent and recursive neural networks,
• Prototype based methods, learning vector quantization,
• Unsupervised learning, self-organizing maps,
• Relevance learning, learning metrics,
• Data visualization,
• Models for very large data sets,
• Applications in bioinformatics
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